There are factors beyond the individuality of players that shouldn’t go unrecognized. And this Champion’s League final offers a good backdrop for illustrating the point. Barca has the support of an entire philosophy behind them. A very clear and precise way of playing that has been engrained and rehearsed over years into oblivion. It is […]
Champions League
Barcelona vs Real Madrid: Stop Bitching and Start Understanding!
The so-called diving. The exagerations. The ref badgering. Most of you complain about it and the players that are most notorious for it. But this is what happens when a team, in this case Madrid, decides it does not want to play straight up. And I don’t blame them – I’d certainly do the same. […]
More on Possession Soccer: A Reader’s Comment
This is a response to a comment left on a previous article about soccer possession. We value every single one of our readers whether they agree or disagree with us – without you guys, we don’t exist! So Wayne took issue with my statement: “[with] a synchronized high pressure defense, it will be extremely difficult […]
Robben and Sneijder in, Real Madrid out!
How must Madrid president Florentino Perez feel now that the 2 players he forced out the door last summer have led their new teams to the Champions League semis while his new superstars are watching the games on their 80 inch lcd tv’s at home with him? Arjen Robben’s stunning goal put Bayern through past […]
UEFA Champions League Groups are Set!
This is the greatest club football competition in the world! The group stage draw is now set, and as usual there are some juicy match-ups. This year’s draw holds two very anticipated ones. Inter Milan and defending champion FC Barcelona will clash in a battle of top teams who traded star forwards this summer as […]